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Re: [Networker] Switch
2006-07-17 11:29:27
Brett,
You'd be amazed to find out how many companies are in the same boat.
Data/Tape/Backup consolidation is huge right now.
Networker and NetBackup are both enterprise class software packages and
if you were starting from scratch and comparing feature-for-feature on
what you need, there won't be much difference. However, NetBackup will
likely be more expensive ... when you're in Gartner's magic quadrant
you've the luxury of asking more $$ for your products.
Its been my experience that you should stick with what you know. You
already have a significant investment in software licenses and more
importantly, you're already trained. If your Networker admins are not
familiar with Windows backups or other features of Networker, consider
investing your money on training or professional services.
-Jason
Brett Monroe wrote:
Hey all,
I work in a data center that's, for the last 5 years, had a backup
"strategy" of attaching a tape drive to every server and running fulls
nightly. We now have hundreds of servers (both Wintel and Sun
Solaris) and
have a full time operations staff to do, among other things, managing
tapes. Recently, upper management had decided to spring for a tape
library
(ST SL500) to backup everything. We have been using Networker to
backup our
Sun servers and Backup Exec to backup our Wintel servers. We are now
asking
ourselves "do we want to stick with Networker to backup everyone or go
with
another backup software solution?" As you can probably guess, the "other
backup solution" is NetBackup 6.0. Most of our talent is with
Networker but
we've had a lot of frustrations with the software as well (as I'm sure
most
of you have had as well). My question for you is this:
Given the opportunity, would you migrate away from Networker to
NetBackup?
Or would I be just be trading one headache for another?
Thanks
--Brett
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